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failuremag.com · Group blog · on HN since 2009
Failure Magazine is an online publication telling stories of human failures and missteps, from science and mountaineering to marketing and invented languages.
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Hubbert · 2010-04-14
Better article from Failure Magazine:
http://failuremag.com/index.php/feature/article/cool_customer/
dalke · 2014-01-29
On what basis do you conclude that "most of them have climbed a zillion other mountains"?
For example, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152659/I-strong-feeling-come-… lists 'overweight French journalist – a small woman weighing around 80kg, who had used her entire supply of oxygen before she'd reached any height at all, and an American of Turkish origin who was carrying his bicycle with him because it had always been his dream to take it to the summit and insisted on fulfilling that dream at whatever cost'.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/into_sin_air/ includes "Since we’ve decided to measure everything on the planet against Everest there’s a group of people that feel incomplete without having climbed it. Consequently the majority of the people that go there aren’t seasoned mountaineers. Many of them have no interest in climbing any mountain other than Everest."
I can easily find other references if you wish.
I don't believe there are good numbers for the amount of experience that people who climb Everest have, compared to (say) K-2 or Annapurna, both of which are more fatal than Everest, or Cho Oyu, considered the easiest of the 8,000+ meter mountains.
But that suggests you might also not have a strong basis for your statement.